Bicycle race to aid Krempels Center

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Oct 18, 2013 at 2:00 AM

STRATHAM — The Portsmouth Criterium is taking a year off, but while the grown-ups are sitting it out this fall, the kids will be racing full speed ahead on Saturday, Oct. 19, as part of the Krempels King of the Road Challenge.

STRATHAM — The Portsmouth Criterium is taking a year off, but while the grown-ups are sitting it out this fall, the kids will be racing full speed ahead on Saturday, Oct. 19 as part of the Krempels King of the Road Challenge.

"When we announced that the Criterium was taking a one-year hiatus, we had inquiries from various families asking whether the Kids Races could go on in another location," said Scott Bogle, kids race coordinator for the Portsmouth Criterium. "The Krempels Center and LOCO Cycling have been terrific in offering to incorporate the Kids Races into the King Challenge event this year, and we really appreciate Portsmouth Regional Hospital continuing as our title sponsor."

The King of the Road Challenge is a family recreational ride and fundraising event for the Krempels Center, a Portsmouth based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with brain injury from trauma, tumor or stroke.

The Kids Race format will be similar to prior years' events, though with an abbreviated slate of races focusing on events for 4-6 year olds and 7-9 year olds. All racing will be within Stratham Industrial Park starting at 10:30 a.m. The schedule will begin with a training wheels race for kids ages 4-6 racing approximately 250 meters. Kids ages 4-6 on regular bicycles will follow, racing the same course. Kids 7-9 will race 1 ¼ laps of the 0.5 mile loop formed by Marin Way and Domain Drive.

Pre-registering online at www.bikereg.com (search Krempels) is highly recommended to help ensure a race entry.

Rider check-in and on-site registration if space remains available begin at 7:30 a.m., at the Timberland parking lot on Domain Drive in Stratham Industrial Park. On-site registration ends, and all riders must check-in, by 9:30 a.m. The registration fee for online registration remains $5, and $10 for race day registration. A properly fitting helmet is required to race, and all racers will receive a helmet fit check. Bicycles will also be checked for safety prior to racing.

Oliver Sterndale of Durham participated in the 4-6 year old event for his first time in 2011 and raced again in 2012. "Oliver loved riding in the kids' race" said mom Amy Sterndale.

Medals are awarded to the top 3 boys and girls in each event, and all entrants receive a participant ribbon.

For more details on the event, go to www.kingchallenge.org and click on Kids Race, or contact Scott Bogle at 603-512-4456 or kidsracing@portsmouthcrit.com.

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